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Ian F. MacInnes, Associate Professor

Ian F. MacInnes, Chair and Professor
B.A., Swarthmore College; M.A. & Ph.D., University of Virginia

Email: imacinnes@albion.edu
Home Page:
http://people.albion.edu/imacinnes/indexim.htm

Publications: Articles on sixteenth-century literature and culture appearing in Early Modern Literary Studies, Textual Practice, Viator, etc. He is at work on a study of animals in early modern literature and culture. His website, Ian's English Calendar is a resource for students of English history and literature.

Courses: British Literature I, Age of Elizabeth, Voices of Liberty: Milton and His Age, Redeeming Eve: Early Modern Women's Writing, Composition.


Danit Brown, Assistant ProfessorDanit Brown, Assistant Professor
B.A., Oberlin College; M.F.A., Indiana University

Email: danitbrown@albion.edu

Publications: Stories in StoryQuarterly, Glimmer Train, and Story, among others. She is in the final stages of writing a short-story collection, and in the beginning stages of a novel.

Courses: Introductory Creative Writing, Intermediate Fiction, Fiction Workshop, Creative Non-Fiction, Composition.


Nels Christensen, Assistant Professor
B.A., California State University; M.A. & Ph.D. Michigan State University

Email: nchristensen@albion.edu

  • Research and Writing: Ecocriticism, Ecopedagogy, and Environmental Creative Non-Fiction. 
     
  • Courses: Composition, The Idea of Nature and the Nature of Ideas, Writing in Place, Terrorists and Treehuggers.

Mary Collar, Professor
B.A., Wisconsin; M.A. & Ph.D., Penn State

Email: mcollar@albion.edu

  • Publications: Critical theory and I. B. Singer. She continues to work on
    contemporary literature and theory and has received grants for research at Yale, Northwestern, Stanford, and Illinois.
     
  • Courses: Contemporary Literature, Twentieth Century Literature in English, Modern Poetry, Literary Theory, Immigration Literature, Composition, (1983-84 Teacher of the Year.)

Scott Hendrix, Director of the Writing CenterScott Hendrix, Director of the Writing Center
B.A., Oregon State University; M.F.A., University of Oregon; Ph.D., University of Kansas

Email: shendrix@albion.edu

Areas of Specialization: Literacy studies, composition studies, writing center theory/practice, and pedagogy.

Courses: Composition, English Language, Responding to Student Writing.


Sarah (Sally) Jordan, Associate ProfessorSarah (Sally) Jordan, Associate Professor
B.A., Salem College; M.A. & Ph.D., Brandeis

Email: sjordan@albion.edu

Publications: A specialist in British eighteenth-century and romantic literature and author of The Anxieties of Idleness: Idleness in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture. Her articles have appeared in The Age of Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Life. She is now at work on her new project, a study of the emergent standards of masculinity in the British 18th century, and specifically of refusals and failures to meet these standards.

Courses: British Literature II, Gay and Lesbian Literature, The Making of Modern Masculinity, Great Issues in the Humanities (The Literature of Horror), The Age of Satire, Eighteenth-Century Culture Shocks, The Romantic Age, Introduction to Literature, Composition.


Lanya Lamouria, Assistant Professor
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A. & Ph.D. Washington University in Saint Louis

Email: llamouria@albion.edu

  • Publications: articles on Wilkie Collins and presentations on Charlotte Bronte, Dickens, DeQuincey, and the French Revolution of 1848.
     
  • Courses: Composition, Introduction to Literature, British Lit II, British Fiction After 1850.

Judith Lockyer, Chair and Professor

Judith Lockyer, Professor
B.A. & M.A., University of Kentucky; Ph.D., University of Michigan

Email: jlockyer@albion.edu

Publications: Articles and a book on William Faulkner. She is presently working on a study of issues of race in the fiction of seven twentieth century white Southern women, and she has received a grant for research at the University of California at Berkeley.

Courses: American Literature I and II, The American Novel, Four American Poets, The Problem of Race in American Literature, African-American Literature, Southern Women's Literature, Composition, (1986-87 New Teacher of the Year; 1992-93 Honors Program Teacher of the Year; 1995-96 PACMA Faculty Award; 2002 Arthur Anderson Teacher of Year.)


Helena Mesa, Assiociate Professor
B.A., Indiana University; M.F.A. University of Maryland, Ph.D. University of Houston

Email: hmesa@albion.edu

Publications: Poetry in literary journals such as Poet Lore and Third Coast At work on a book of poems entitled Brevity of Snow.

Courses: Introductory Creative Writing, Poetry Workshop, Visual Poetry, Latina/o literature, Introduction to Literature, Composition.


Jess Roberts, Assistant ProfessorJess Roberts, Assistant Professor
B.A., Dartmouth College; M.A. & Ph.D. University of Michigan

Email: jroberts@albion.edu

Publications: co-editor of Nineteenth Century American Poetry (Penquin,
1996), author of articles on 19th-century American anthologies of infant elegies, the erotics of incest, and American Civil War print culture.

Courses: Composition, Introduction to Literature, American Lit I and II, Literature of the American Civil War, African-American Literature.


Julie Stotz-Ghosh, Visiting Assistant ProfessorJulie Stotz-Ghosh, Visiting Assistant Professor
B.A., Albion College; M.A., M.F.A., Ph.D., Western Michigan University

Email: jstotz-ghosh@albion.edu

Publications: Poems, short-short fiction, creative nonfiction, and reviews in various journals and anthologies, including Poetry Midwest, Quarter After Eight, The Southern Review, Sudden Stories, and Third Coast. Poems in multimedia exhibitions at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts and the Hudson Street Gallery.

Courses: Introductory Creative Writing, Creative Non-Fiction, Introduction to Literature, Composition, Great Issues in Fine Arts: Poetry and Poetics.


Laura J. Williams, Visiting Assistant ProfessorLaura J. Williams, Visiting Assistant Professor
B.A. & M.S. Columbia University

Email: ljwilliams@albion.edu

Publications: Feature articles in ARTNews, Time Out, New York, Health, Hour Detroit, Detroit Home and other publications. Founder and Editor of the Ann Arbor Paper.

Courses: Contemporary Journalism, Advanced News Writing, Magazine Writing, Multimedia Editing, Composition.


Shannon Aikins, Department Secretary

Email: saikins@albion.edu

Telephone: 517-629-0232


Emeritus Professors

James W. Cook B.A., Wayne State University; M.A., University of Michigan; Ph.D., Wayne State University

Charles Crupi B.A., Harvard; M.A., California at Berkeley; Ph.D., Princeton

John E. Hart B.A., Kansas Wesleyan; M.A. & Ph.D., Syracuse University

Paul Loukides B.A., University of Pittsburgh; M.A., University of Iowa

Eugene E. Miller B.A., University of Notre Dame; M.A., Ohio University; Ph.D., University of Illinois

Hal H. Wyss B.A., Wesleyan; M.A. & Ph.D., Ohio State

 
 
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